Fantasy Baseball Player Notes

Bogaerts showed modest rebound signs in 2025, posting a .263/.328/.391 line with 20 steals across 136 games after an injury-marred 2024 campaign. His underlying metrics were closer to league average (94 Rbat+, .320 rOBA), but a jump to a 39.5% hard-hit rate and a career-best 26.8% line-drive rate suggest there's still quality contact in the profile. While his power remains well below his Boston peak, the speed has held — 33 steals over the last two seasons with a 90.9% success rate in 2025 — giving him a stable roto floor. With 2026 projections forecasting a similar batting average with mid-teens homers and another 15-20 SB season, Bogaerts profiles as a steady middle-infield contributor whose five-category contributions are more valuable than his recent OPS totals indicate.